MJ Maccardini (trailerfullofpix)'s photos with the keyword: trees

House designed by Stanford White of McKim, Mead & White, gardens by Fletcher Steele. Summer home of the Choate family, now owned and maintained by the Trustees of Reservations. thetrustees.org/place/naumkeag

House designed by Stanford White of McKim, Mead & White, gardens by Fletcher Steele. Summer home of the Choate family, now owned and maintained by the Trustees of Reservations. thetrustees.org/place/naumkeag

House designed by Stanford White of McKim, Mead & White, gardens by Fletcher Steele. Summer home of the Choate family, now owned and maintained by the Trustees of Reservations. thetrustees.org/place/naumkeag

House designed by Stanford White of McKim, Mead & White, gardens by Fletcher Steele. Summer home of the Choate family, now owned and maintained by the Trustees of Reservations. thetrustees.org/place/naumkeag

Cass Sculpture Foundation, Goodwood, West Sussex. The immersive sculptural installations by David Brooks explore different perceptions and interactions with nature. As part of the Cass Sculpture Foundation’s Fields Programme, Brooks created Picnic Grove, a sprawling work built out of custom-made outdoor wooden furniture and spread over the entire 18,000m of the Deer Hut Field. The dozens of picnic tables and garden chairs are constructed in an interlocking manner, with trees heedlessly growing through the furniture like opportunistic weeds. As the picnic tables traverse the field and impose themselves on the landscape, the trees perforate the structures like a verdant grove, creating ambiguity as to which is dominant; manmade constructions or nature. This is typical of David Brooks sculptural oeuvre in which he creates experimental platforms for nature and man to play out against one another. While visitors are encouraged to utilise the installation for communal enjoyment, they will also find themselves negotiating the playful interruptions created by the erratic placement of the trees, fostering a similar sense of ambiguity as to who is imposing on whom.

Cass Sculpture Foundation, Goodwood, West Sussex. The immersive sculptural installations by David Brooks explore different perceptions and interactions with nature. As part of the Cass Sculpture Foundation’s Fields Programme, Brooks created Picnic Grove, a sprawling work built out of custom-made outdoor wooden furniture and spread over the entire 18,000m of the Deer Hut Field. The dozens of picnic tables and garden chairs are constructed in an interlocking manner, with trees heedlessly growing through the furniture like opportunistic weeds. As the picnic tables traverse the field and impose themselves on the landscape, the trees perforate the structures like a verdant grove, creating ambiguity as to which is dominant; manmade constructions or nature. This is typical of David Brooks sculptural oeuvre in which he creates experimental platforms for nature and man to play out against one another. While visitors are encouraged to utilise the installation for communal enjoyment, they will also find themselves negotiating the playful interruptions created by the erratic placement of the trees, fostering a similar sense of ambiguity as to who is imposing on whom.

Along the Rivulet Trail at the Bryant Homestead, Cummington, Massachusetts.

Ai Weiwei installation of eight trees in the courtyard of the Royal Academy of Arts, Burlington House, Piccadilly

Ai Weiwei installation of eight trees in the courtyard of the Royal Academy of Arts, Burlington House, Piccadilly

Ai Weiwei installation of eight trees in the courtyard of the Royal Academy of Arts, Burlington House, Piccadilly

Ai Weiwei installed a small forest of trees in the courtyard of the Royal Academy of Arts, Burlington House, Piccadilly. Sir Joshua Reynolds approves.

There are scads of huge painted murals all over central Philadelphia. It could take you several days to see all of them. This is one we happened to pass on the way to looking at mosaic murals. It's Autumn (Your House in the Forest) by David Guinn, and is at the corner of 9th and Bainbridge. See where this picture was taken. [?]